Category: 2025 Travels
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Women’s Rights National Historical Park
This delayed post is from our Finger Lakes trip… “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.“ These words, written more than 177 years ago, still resound today. Especially now, in these seemingly misogynistic times, it behooves us to remain mindful of the long struggle by both women…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
This delayed post is from our Finger Lakes trip… We had stopped in Seneca Falls specifically to visit The Women’s Rights National Historical Site. Much to our surprise, we discovered that Seneca Falls is believed to have inspired the fictional town of Bedford Falls in the classic Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” and that…
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An Early Conservationist
After visiting the Corning Glass Museum, we returned home for a few days before heading to Plymouth MA. The Kingsessing Morris Men, the team Joe dances with, were invited to a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Muddy River Morris Team. The event was scheduled for Saturday with arrival on Friday at Pinewoods Camp.…
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A Novel Glass Bridge!
We are visiting the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY for a second time. We had last visited in 2005 and much has changed in the intervening 20 years. The museum was established in 1951 as a not-for-profit to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Corning Glass. The museum is has two exhibit spaces, a…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2025!
Like many of you, we will be traveling Thanksgiving week to be with family. Also like most of you, we will be traveling in our car and not our RV. Why you ask? While our RV is insulated and has heat, it is not designed to have water in the plumbing when temperatures go below…
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Erie Canal Museum
We are heading west toward Pen Yan, NY to spend some time in Keuka Lake State Park and visit a few wineries. Since our route took us close to Syracuse, we decided to visit the Erie Canal Museum and we are glad that we did. It is difficult to imagine today but in the 1800’s…
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Fenimore Art Museum
After touring the Baseball Hall of Fame, we travelled a short distance north along the Otsego Lake to the Fenimore Art Museum on land formerly owned by American writer, James Fenimore Cooper. The property was later purchased by Singer Manufacturing Company heir, Edward Severin Clark, whose brothers are Stephen Carlton Clark, who founded the Baseball…
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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
We stopped in Cooperstown, New York to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. As much as we both enjoy baseball -Joe played through high school- we probably would not have visited Cooperstown if it hadn’t been on our way from The Clark Art Institute to our main destination, Keuka Lake in the NY…
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Olana
Olana, located in Greenport, NY, was the home and estate of Fredric Edwin Church and his wife Isabel. Frederic Church is considered is one of the most famous landscape painters of the mid-19th century and Olana is a rare example of an American artist’s home, studio and estate that remained intact after the artist’s death.…
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It was our first time … but may not be our last.
Believe it or not, after 5 years of RVing we finally stayed overnight at a Cracker Barrel. Several of our favorite RVing YouTube couples have elected to stay at Cracker Barrel and appeared unscathed by the experience. We have stayed at over 65 Harvest Hosts but never chosen to stay at a Cracker Barrel, Walmart…